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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 3226837, member: 22004&quot;]Of course they were moderated every week and month and I saw questionable posts, threads and people with nothing to intelligently contribute dealt with in a timely fashion.&nbsp; Recently Insider and others were banned for a couple weeks, who have consistently posted thoughtful numismatically relevant material on a daily and weekly basis.&nbsp; Completely uncalled for and frankly disgusting.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want collectors and dealers to be living in fear of being kicked off at any moment, then the type of aggressive deletion strategy of Ms. Boyd will elicit dumbed down, ditto head, &quot;positive&quot; posts without the type of honest critical thinking that makes a free and open society viable.&nbsp; You cut out, intellectually assassinate as it were, censoring valuable contributions and what you are going to have are forums that are a shell of their former self.&nbsp; It is dehumanizing to live under ruthless censors.&nbsp; I can understand that for profanity, hateful, abusive, dishonest and intimidating rhetoric, but not for honest, reality-based posts centered at historical information which numismatics is rich with.&nbsp; I frankly doubt that Ms. Boyd has much &quot;skin in the game&quot; except for her employment at a company.&nbsp; Most of us have handled, bought and sold considerable value in this hobby, enjoy it, want it to remain open and inviting to the next generation; not a monopoly controlled by a few individuals who rule their fiefdom with an iron fist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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